Brazilian Dance Workout

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The Charge

For your body and soul!

The Case

Don't want to do yoga? Sick of kickboxing? Have no use for hip hop? Have you
thought about Brazilian dancing? Heh, didn't think so. The folks at Razor
Digital hope to entice you exercise buffs looking for a spicy fitness fix into
checking out a new approach to sloughing off the fat.

Brazilian Dance Workout pretty much sums everything up: this
hour-long program will you have Brazilian dancing like crazy. When all is said
and done, if you're not passed out on the floor, consider your out worked.

Vanessa Isaac, a Brazilian performer and dance and fitness instructor is the
point woman for the festivities. The entire program takes place outside with a
trio of Brazilian musicians doing their thing in the background. Isaac is
accompanied by about half a dozen backups.

Like other dance-oriented discs, this is set up in the take-your-time
manner. At the beginning, Isaac will lead you through the different movies in
slower time. As the workout proceeds, the moves grow more complicated and
faster. By the end of it all, these crazy folks are shaking their rump at warp
speed. My take? Well, it certainly looks like they're having a good
time.

My main gripe with this disc is the horrible chapter selection set-up. For
workout discs, especially for a routine as complicated as this one, chapter
selections are crucial. But Brazilian Dance Workout has only three
chapters in its entire 60-plus minutes of runtime: warm-up, the program, and
cool down. That middle one is pretty big. You skip past it and you're at the
end. Translation: prepare for lots and lots of pain-in-the-butt scanning.

Audio and video are full screen and 2.0 stereo, but the disc does have a
couple of extras. Two audio-only mixes can be accessed to, I presume, offer the
newly formed Brazilian dancers tunes to shake their moneymakers to.